Tembu woman sitting with her child, Baziya, South Africa East

"Baziya. Tembu-Frau sitzend, ihr Kind vor sich" ("Baziya. Tembu woman sitting, her child in front of her"). A woman, wearing draperies, a headdress, necklaces and earrings, is having a child on her lap, wearing necklaces, one necklace with a key. Wilhelm Friedrich Karl Blohm, born in 1884 in Keffenbrinck (Germany), was a carpenter. In 1911 he married Marie Bürger. He started his missionary work in 1911 in Unyamwezi (East Africa). After being imprisoned by the Belgians from 1916 till 1917 he returned to Germany. From 1922 till 1945 he worked as a missionary in Baziya (South Africa). He died in Baziya in 1945.